Archive for September, 2011
Sep 30th, 2011
A 67-year-old man who survived for 5 or 6 days on leaves and creek water after his car plunged 200 feet off a California mountain road was discovered by his children, who tracked him down like television detectives.
Chardonnay, Sean and Lisa Lavau went on NBC's "Today" show Friday, describing how they discovered their father's car and his makeshift camp in a ravine Thursday off Lake Hughes Road in the Angeles National Forest.
Another vehicle was discovered nearby, but its driver did not survive the crash and authorities don't know if they are dealing with 1 crash or 2, stated Los Angeles County Fire Department Capt. Mark Savage. The acc
Sep 30th, 2011
A junior varsity football coach given a suspension for making his players lie down in a central New York cemetery attempting to motivate his players after a defeat, said he borrowed the idea from a pivotal scene in the 2000 Denzel Washington film "Remember the Titans."
The superintendent of the Marcellus school district, Craig Tice, outside Syracuse, announced Thursday that coach Jim Marsh has been given a 2 week suspension without pay for last weekend's spur-of-the-moment stop at a rural cemetery.
Marsh's team was going back home from a loss last Saturday at neighboring Skaneateles when he had the bus pull over at a cemetery and told t
Sep 30th, 2011
A white Mississippi teenager accused of driving over James Anderson with a truck has pleaded not guilty to capital murder.
On Friday, Deryl Dedmon appeared before Circuit Judge Jeff Weill during a brief hearing.
The judge set a Jan. 9 trial date and told prosecutors to inform the court no later than Nov. 1 if they intend seeking the death penalty.
Dedmon is charged with running down James Craig Anderson a 49 year-old black man on June 26 with a pickup in what authorities call a hate crime.
Dedmon initially was charged with murder, yet the indictment was upgraded to capital murder when authorities said they uncovered evidence tha
Sep 30th, 2011
Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric killed Friday, was seeking to use weapons of mass destruction to attack westerners in his role as chief of external operations for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to a senior U.S. official.
The terror leader was specifically seeking to use poisons including cyanide and ricin, as he was planning and directing attacks against the United States from his foreign base, the official said.
The details of al-Awlaki's influence come as top U.S. officials privately brag about the U.S. strike that killed him as a major coup in a long string of Al Qaeda leaders taken out by the Obama administration
Sep 30th, 2011
An Egyptian court has sentenced the former information minister, Anas el-Fekky, to seven years in prison for squandering public funds from the state television union, the latest prison sentence for a member of Hosni Mubarak’s cabinet. Mr. Fekky was amongst the most high profile targets for protesters, in part because of how state media vilified them during an uprising that forced Mr. Mubarak from power. The court has also sentenced Osama el-Sheikh, the former head of the union, to five years on the same charges.
In February, Mr. Fekky was detained on suspicion of profiteering and wasting public funds. The ruling, which was aired on t
Sep 30th, 2011
The U.S. embassy in Riyadh has warned American citizens of a plot by a ‘terrorist group’ to kidnap westerners in the Saudi capital. In a statement issued on the embassy’s website, the embassy advised the U.S. citizens in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that they have received information that a terrorist group in Saudi Arabia may be planning to abduct westerners in Riyadh. It added that the U.S. embassy in Riyadh reminds all U.S. citizens to exercise enhanced security awareness and prudence at all times. The warning has advised people to keep their security and situational awareness levels high, and offered steps they could take to imp
Sep 30th, 2011
The new rulers in Libya believe that the fugitive ex-leader, Muammer Qadhafi, was being shielded by nomadic tribesmen in the desert near the Algerian border, while his followers fended off assaults in his hometown. Intense artillery and sniper fire from the pro-Qadhafi fighters has so far prevented the National Transitional Council (NTC) forces from taking Sirte, despite more than two weeks of fighting and two full-on assaults. One of the two last bastions of support for the ousted strongman, it has withstood a siege by NTC fighters hitting it with rocket and tank fire as well as Nato airstrikes.
The United Nations and the internation
Sep 30th, 2011
Although they built military aircraft at Boeing's sprawling Ridley Park plant in Delaware County. Authorities said that the employees were also illegally peddling as well as using prescription drugs such as Oxycontin and Xanax at the same time.
Following a four-year undercover investigation, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Thursday charging 23 Boeing workers with distributing oxycodone and various other prescription painkillers on Boeing's property.
Authorities said that 14 others were charged with a misdemeanor - attempted possession of oxycodone and various other drugs - sold to them by their co-workers.
Most of the de
Sep 30th, 2011
China is now due to take its first step towards building a space station when it launches an experimental module ahead of the country’s National Day celebrations. China considers its ambitious space program as a symbol of its global stature, growing technical expertise, and the success of Communist Party in turning around the fortunes of the formerly poverty-stricken nation. Space authorities say that Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace” is expected to take off between 1316 and 1331 GMT from the Gobi desert in China’s northwest, and propelled by a Long March 2F rocket, ahead of the National Day on October 1.
This unmanned 8.5-ton mo
Sep 30th, 2011
GfK NOP Ltd, one of the leading market research and consumer insight agencies, said that for the first time in four months UK consumer confidence increased in September as Britons became more optimistic about the economic outlook and spending.
The London-based research group, GfK NOP Ltd, reported today that an index of sentiment gained 1 point from August to minus 30. The agency said that a measure of households’ anticipations for the economy over the coming twelve months climbed 4 points to minus 27, and a gauge of households’ assessment of whether this is a time to make major purchases climbed 3 points to minus 28.
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